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Kristina Sundquist

Kristina Sundquist

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Medicine

D-Index
100
Citations
42699
World Ranking
8198
National Ranking
165

Overview

Kristina Sundquist is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has a significant body of research primarily situated in the field of Medicine. Their work encompasses a variety of subfields, including Epidemiology, Clinical Psychology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Oncology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The research topics addressed by Sundquist cover a diverse range of health-related themes. These include Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Health disparities and outcomes, Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, and Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies.

Among notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Sundquist are:

  • Colorectal cancer incidence, mortality, and stage distribution in European countries in the colorectal cancer screening era: an international population-based study (2021, The Lancet Oncology)
  • Adaptation of the Charlson Comorbidity Index for Register-Based Research in Sweden (2021, Clinical Epidemiology)
  • Preterm or Early Term Birth and Risk of Autism (2021, PEDIATRICS)
  • Mitochondrial related genome-wide Mendelian randomization identifies putatively causal genes for multiple cancer types (2023, EBioMedicine)
  • Association of Preterm Birth With Long-term Risk of Heart Failure Into Adulthood (2021, JAMA Pediatrics)

Sundquist frequently collaborates with several other researchers, including:

  • Jan Sundquist
  • Kenneth S. Kendler
  • Henrik Ohlsson
  • Xinjun Li
  • Casey Crump

The scholar's research is often published in venues such as:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Metastatic sites and survival in lung cancer

    Matias Riihimäki;Matias Riihimäki;A Hemminki;Mahdi Fallah;Hauke Thomsen

  • Comorbidities and Mortality in Bipolar Disorder A Swedish National Cohort Study

    Casey Crump;Kristina Sundquist;Kristina Sundquist;Marilyn A. Winkleby;Jan Sundquist;Jan Sundquist

  • Comorbidities and mortality in persons with schizophrenia: a Swedish national cohort study.

    Casey Crump;Marilyn A. Winkleby;Kristina Sundquist;Jan Sundquist

  • Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

    Goodarz Danaei;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M. Singh;Emily Carnahan

  • Urbanisation and incidence of psychosis and depression: follow-up study of 4.4 million women and men in Sweden.

    Kristina Sundquist;Gölin Frank;Jan Sundquist

  • Gestational Age at Birth and Mortality in Young Adulthood

    Casey Crump;Kristina Sundquist;Jan Sundquist;Marilyn A. Winkleby

  • Risk of pulmonary embolism in patients with autoimmune disorders: a nationwide follow-up study from Sweden

    Bengt Zöller;Xinjun Li;Jan Sundquist;Jan Sundquist;Kristina Sundquist

  • Metastatic spread in patients with gastric cancer.

    Matias Riihimäki;Akseli Hemminki;Kristina Sundquist;Jan Sundquist

  • The epidemiology of metastases in neuroendocrine tumors.

    Matias Riihimäki;Akseli Hemminki;Kristina Sundquist;Jan Sundquist

  • Colorectal cancer incidence, mortality, and stage distribution in European countries in the colorectal cancer screening era: an international population-based study

    Rafael Cardoso;Rafael Cardoso;Feng Guo;Feng Guo;Thomas Heisser;Thomas Heisser;Monika Hackl

  • Inequities in CHD incidence and case fatality by neighborhood deprivation.

    Marilyn Winkleby;Kristina Sundquist;Catherine Cubbin

  • Neighbourhood deprivation and incidence of coronary heart disease: a multilevel study of 2.6 million women and men in Sweden

    Sundquist K;Malmström M;Johansson Se

  • Neighborhood walkability, physical activity, and walking behavior: The Swedish Neighborhood and Physical Activity (SNAP) study

    Kristina Sundquist;Ulf Eriksson;Naomi Kawakami;Naomi Kawakami;Lars Skog

  • Neighborhood deprivation and cardiovascular disease risk factors : Protective and harmful effects

    Catherine Cubbin;Kristina Sundquist;Helena Ahlén;Sven-Erik Johansson

  • Sociodemographic, psychiatric and somatic risk factors for suicide: a Swedish national cohort study.

    C. Crump;Kristina Sundquist;Jan Sundquist;M. A. Winkleby

  • Epidemiology of valvular heart disease in a Swedish nationwide hospital-based register study.

    Pontus Andell;Xinjun Li;Andreas Martinsson;Charlotte Andersson

  • Familial associations of rheumatoid arthritis with autoimmune diseases and related conditions

    Kari Hemminki;Xinjun Li;Jan Sundquist;Kristina Sundquist

  • Neighborhood Socioeconomic Environment and Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease: A Follow-up Study of 25,319 Women and Men in Sweden

    Kristina Sundquist;Marilyn Winkleby;Helena Ahlén;Sven-Erik Johansson

  • Risk of Cancer Following Hospitalization for Type 2 Diabetes

    Kari Hemminki;Kari Hemminki;Kari Hemminki;Xinjun Li;Jan Sundquist;Jan Sundquist;Jan Sundquist;Kristina Sundquist

  • Low linking social capital as a predictor of coronary heart disease in Sweden: A cohort study of 2.8 million people

    Jan Sundquist;Sven-Erik Johansson;Min Yang;Kristina Sundquist

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Sundquist
Jan Sundquist Lund University
Kari Hemminki
Kari Hemminki Charles University
Kenneth S. Kendler
Kenneth S. Kendler Virginia Commonwealth University
Marilyn A. Winkleby
Marilyn A. Winkleby Stanford University
Akseli Hemminki
Akseli Hemminki University of Helsinki
Johan Ärnlöv
Johan Ärnlöv Karolinska Institute
Paul Lichtenstein
Paul Lichtenstein Karolinska Institute
Hermann Brenner
Hermann Brenner German Cancer Research Center
Briana Mezuk
Briana Mezuk University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard S. Houlston
Richard S. Houlston Institute of Cancer Research

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